Plans for a large solar farm south of the M4 have progressed as Wiltshire Council has signed off multiple ecological conditions relating to its construction.
Leigh Delamere Solar Farm was approved for installation on land between Sevington village and Leigh Delamere motorway services in 2022.
The application was submitted by Eden Renewables and suggested the project would have a 49.9MW generating capacity, as well as deliver “significant social, environmental, and economic benefits” to the local area.
Last year, Eden Renewables put in plans for another solar farm called Red Barn on the outskirts of Kington St Michael, which was their third proposed development in the county, including the Leigh Delamere and Forest Gate sites.
The Leigh Delamere plan have now progressed with the discharging of four conditions related to the application.
These included the submission and approval of a construction ecological management plan, a landscape and ecology management plan, and a scheme of monitoring focused on the key aspects of the biodiversity management plan.
The final condition that has been signed off is the completion of an access track between the public highway and the site compound.
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